Word: paragould
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the third-term issue, found that voters had accepted the calculated Faubus definition of the campaign: show the "outsiders," including President Eisenhower and "the Yankee press," that Arkansas does not want integrated schools. With the courage to win or lose on horse sense, Chancery Judge Lee Ward of Paragould (pop. 10,000) grimly contrasted his own law-and-order segregationism with the "bullet and bayonet approach" taken by Faubus. "Orval Faubus stands today on the brink of treason," said he in an election eve TV speech. "Is it war between Arkansas and the United States?" But early election night...
...Little Rock, whose public-speaking experience comes chiefly from delivering his own hot-dog commercials on TV; Chris flew into town in his own plane. Then, down to the courthouse lawn fluttered a red, white and blue helicopter, and out stepped Candidate Lee Ward, 51, chancery court judge from Paragould...
...state plan allows communities to build plants for industry; local citizens put up 20% of the cost themselves (at no interest), raise the balance by selling bonds to private investors and the state. For example, residents of Greene County put up a $700,000 plant for Emerson Electric in Paragould at no immediate cost to the company. (The company pays off the cost of the building over 20 years at 5% interest.) They floated bonds, sold $50 membership certificates, got loans on pledges of future contributions. When Duracraft Boat Corp. of Monticello could not expand because there was no water...
...Previous record. 25 strikeouts by Clarence ("Hooks") lott, for Paragould in the Northeast Arkansas League in 1941. After two failures with the St. Louis Browns, lott finished his major-league career in 1947 with a 3-8 record with the New York Giants. Major-league strikeout record: 18, by Cleveland's Bob Feller...